What color do I paint my kitchen cabinets???

Ronni

Ronni

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What color do I paint my kitchen cabinets??? 😱 Theyre almost finished being built...the top ones and floor to ceiling unit anyway....and I have to decide on a color and I can’t! 😳🥴😫

I don’t know why it’s so hard. I’m just really struggling. The doors look like this, the same design though the pulls will be a different color and shape.

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We’ve discussed white, gray, a deep
British racing green.

Thoughts on these or other colors? Pics would also be most welcome!
 

I would go with white around the perimeter and British racing green on the island.

Similar to this.

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You might want to consult some design magazines to learn whether white has run its course for kitchen cabinetry colors. We've all lived long enough to see avocado green appliances, glass block walls and pickled oak cabinets come in strong and then go the way of the Flintstones. Not saying that white cabinets are likely to fully go out of style, but if you think back, until 15 years ago almost nobody had white cabinets.

When we remodeled our kitchen two years ago I firmly opted for stained wood cabinets, ignoring the advice of my contractor (who said white was all the rage). My feeling was that natural wood would never go completely out of style, but more importantly, I'm not an overly ambitious housekeeper. White cabinet show every spatter, drip and smudge immediately. I knew that I'd keep my cabinets clean - I always had before - but I didn't want to be a slave to them.

P.S. I'm thrilled with my kitchen and am so very glad to have gone with wood cabinets.
 
Black counters & I'm guessing red brick above the cooking range, I can see why color choice is tough. Why not get several of those paint cards that appeal to you to help you visualize what looks best to you.
 
Seems to me a white kitchen would show greasy splatters very easily. When My parents did the kitchen, they painted the walls blue and the cabinets yellow and even then, over the years, shows a lot of greasy spatter over the stove.

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The kitchen cabinets in the house we bought this spring are blah builder-grade light oak, but at least they are solid wood. The counters are white laminate. We're going to paint the walls a light grey, the cabinets a darker grey, the island an even darker grey, and go with some grey speckled granite (if we can afford the granite.....otherwise some laminate that looks like granite). The floor is already a pretty terra-cotta tile, so we'll keep that.
 
Ronni,my son remodeled my kitchen a couple of years back. Picking a color drove me crazy. I definitely didn't want stain. I wanted good paint so I could touch up in years to come. My son was after me to choose so they could be painted before he installed them. I finally decided on a beige color.What could be wrong with that. They were all painted and installed and I just couldn't live with it. He was extremely upset with me to say the least. He told me I ruined the job because I couldn't choose the color. I ended up repainting myself but he still tells me I ruined his job. I choose one shade darker with a slight yellow tinge to it. Now I', happy. My son,not so much. My only advice is to paint a large enough area on an old piece of wood and live with it for awhile. Check it out under all lighting conditions. I wish you the best of luck. It isn't easy.cabinets.JPG
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
Ronni,my son remodeled my kitchen a couple of years back. Picking a color drove me crazy. I definitely didn't want stain. I wanted good paint so I could touch up in years to come. My son was after me to choose so they could be painted before he installed them. I finally decided on a beige color.What could be wrong with that. They were all painted and installed and I just couldn't live with it. He was extremely upset with me to say the least. He told me I ruined the job because I couldn't choose the color. I ended up repainting myself but he still tells me I ruined his job. I choose one shade darker with a slight yellow tinge to it. Now I', happy. My son,not so much. My only advice is to paint a large enough area on an old piece of wood and live with it for awhile. Check it out under all lighting conditions. I wish you the best of luck. It isn't easy.View attachment 75427
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Ruth I love that color. It looks a lot like the color of my bathroom cabinets. The walls are slightly darker.
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debodun said:
My family in total - 44 years. By myself - 13 years.
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I doesn’t look like there’s a range hood/vent fan. I’m sure that makes it very hard. Grease and grime accumulate because there’s no place for it to go.

It needs a heavy duty degreaser. Try Goo-Gone. In comes in a spray bottle as well as the regular one.
 
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Whatever you do, Ronni, don't mix all your leftover paints, you'll most likely end up with a brown colour, and if you then use it and don't have enough, you'll never mix the same colour again......:LOL:
 
StarSong said:
Have you made a decision after all this helpful (!?!) advice? o_O
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Thanks for asking. Narrowing it down. I realized that we needed to decide
On the counters first...so much easier imho to match cabinet color to granite than try and find price appropriate granite to match the paint color.

It was pretty overwhelming!! B9C2162C-9CC4-44A5-88E4-A3208C0A6515.jpeg

I think we’re going to go with this. It compliments the kitchen cutting board island and has enough color variations that I won’t be limited to only one shade.
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We had a similar problem when we bought the house we are living in now. My husband hated the brown cabinets so he decided he wanted to paint them light grey. I told him to do whatever he wanted. He did have to change the counter top also. Here is a picture of when he was working on it.
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